Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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PART VI THE THREE JEWELS and SAMADHI
The three jewels:Samyag Darshan : Samyag Gyan : Right Faith : Right Knowledge : Samyag Charitra. Right Conduct (1) RIGHT KNOWLEDGE.
One can be said to possess the Right Knowledge;--who has come to know about the highest qualities and attributes of his own Soul-the inner Self; who has come to know that this Soul can be liberated from this body; that though both exist and function together in this world, yet they can be separated; that though they are one with the other in this world yet their natures are different. The Soul never becomes body or ; matter, nor does this body (or matter) ever become Soul. All the time they remain distinct, separate and intact with all their own qualities inherent within them respectively; the Soul is Pure Consciousness while the body is the material medium. The nature of the man is the resultant of Soul's nature and the nature of the material body-a via